Further, having affirmed that he would be beholden to none of them, he got the contract to carry the United States mail, twice a week, from Kelterville up over Tarwater Mountain to Old Almaden--which was a sporadically worked quick-silver mine in the upland cattle country.
spindle. 1. a pin tapered at one end or both ends, or something with this shape. 2. the thin, tapering figure occurring during metaphase of cell division, composed of microtubules radiating from the centrioles and connecting to the chromosomes at their centromeres.
Textiles and manufacturing. 1  Spindle (textiles), a device to spin fibers into thread. 2  Spindle (tool), a rotating axis of the machine, which often has a shaft at its heart. 3  Segmented spindle, a spindle consisting of discrete elements that can be assembled and disassembled on the fly.